Jun 23, 2023 | Astrological Theory |
Can aversions and fractals point to early death by excess or accident? Recently I wrote an article on using D144 chart for differentiating between twins. In order to validate this research I’ve decided to test the D144 and aversions on 10 horoscopes from the...
May 22, 2023 | Astrological Theory |
Can divisional charts help us differentiate between twins? Recently, astrologer Kevin Lopez has brought up the issue of twins in forums of traditional astrology community. I had the opportunity to speak with him personally via internet where we discussed different...
Mar 6, 2023 | Astrological Theory |
My friend Levi Cosijn and myself join in astrological analysis of the recent tragic train crash in Tempi, Greece which took place on February 28 at 23:21 East European Time. The horoscope of this unfortunate event can make us re-think our understanding of trines and...
Feb 15, 2023 | Astrological Theory |
Recently many heated discussions took place on social media and astrology forums regarding Deborah Houlding’s video where she challenges the validity of whole-sign houses and their use in traditional astrology. I’ve watched her video carefully two times and mostly...
Apr 14, 2022 | Astrological Theory |
PEN AND PAPER FUN! in order to make the study of my book AT THE TURNING OF YEARS easier and more flowing I’ve prepared a PDF with all example charts. Simply print it and follow along. AT THE TURNING OF YEARS – EXAMPLE CHARTS – download here...
Apr 14, 2022 | Astrological Theory |
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Mar 24, 2020 | Astrological Theory |
Normally I don’t write articles about mundane events, but the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected us all and I’ve seen many different explanations about astrological factors pointing at it with some astrologers arguing about the importance of Pluto,...
Feb 12, 2020 | Astrological Theory |
Aspects are found in all systems of zodiacal astrology and it is difficult to imagine a practice of astrology without them. They show us the dynamics between planets, relationship of planets to houses and they can be simply thought of as a pre-defined network of...
Dec 23, 2019 | Astrological Theory |
Of all things in astrology, timing that which is promised in the birth chart is the most difficult task and astrologers throughout history have aimed for accurate timing and came up with many different timing methods. In this example we’ll take a look at how...
Oct 31, 2019 | Astrological Theory |
On Monday, 26th of March 2007 at around 8AM I finished my breakfast, got up from the table, went to pick something from the floor when it happened; severe pain as if someone would stab a knife into my chest, I could no longer breathe normally and could not straighten...
Jul 22, 2019 | Astrological Theory |
There are many arguments against astrology that are age old. Firmicus Maternus, a 4th century CE Roman astrologer from Sicily begins his Mathesis by dealing with such arguments and among these is the issue of twins; how come twins, which are sometimes born just a few...
May 9, 2019 | Astrological Theory |
A SHORT SUMMARY OF KING OLAV’S LIFE Olav the 5th, also known as »Folkekongen« or The People’s King was a very popular and influential King of Norway, voted a Norwegian of a century. He was crowned King on September 21st, 1957 . During the World War II he...
Feb 19, 2019 | Astrological Theory, The secret meeting of East and West |
VARGA FAMILIES In my investigation of vargas I realized that there seem to be four families of vargas. As we have seen, not all vargas are constructed according to the same principle, but there are vargas that share the rationale and I’ve grouped them into...
Feb 15, 2019 | Astrological Theory |
PEN AND PAPER FUN! Here you can download PDFs with blank square and diamond charts that enable you to superimpose a varga onto the main chart. Most astrology software programs don’t allow you to do this, therefore I made these blank charts, so you can experiment...
Jan 23, 2019 | Astrological Theory, The secret meeting of East and West |
DVADASHAMSHA or DODEKATEMORIA None of the divisions of the Zodiac comes to mind as naturally and intuitively as the 12th division called dvadashamsha in India and dodekatemoria in the Hellenistic tradition. Henceforward I will call them the 12th parts. If I was told...
Jan 15, 2019 | Astrological Theory |
In my article about navamsha I’ve shown four examples of bhakti-yogis and how a particular navamsha yoga for bhakti and liberation can be seen nicely in their navamsha charts. Since I enjoy looking at charts of spiritualists this made me curious and I wanted to...
Jan 11, 2019 | Astrological Theory, The secret meeting of East and West |
NAVAMSHA – THE 9th DIVISION Of all the vargas used in Indian astrology the navamsha is the most important and most commonly used one. If one should use only one varga, the navamsha would be the one. There is no classical text of Indian astrology that doesn’t...
Jan 7, 2019 | Astrological Theory, The secret meeting of East and West |
SAPTAMSHA – THE 7th DIVISION In previous articles we’ve looked at three divisions: HORA – one sign split in two parts DREKKANA or DECAN – one sign split into three parts TRIMSAMSHA and BOUND – one sign split into five unequal parts ruled by five non-luminaries...
Dec 18, 2018 | Astrological Theory, The secret meeting of East and West |
TRIMSAMSHAS AND BOUNDS In the previous two articles we’ve covered the division of a sign in two parts called hora and division of a sign into three parts called drekkana, dreshkana or decan. We’ve also briefly touched upon the navamsha and dvadashamsha,...
Nov 28, 2018 | Astrological Theory, The secret meeting of East and West |
DECANS OR DREKKANAS In the first article of this series we looked at the basics of sign division and looked closely at the 2nd division or hora. Today we will continue to divide the zodiac and our next division is the 3rd division called drekkana, dreshkana, dekanoi,...
